DealBook Online

By PETER LATTMAN, MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW POLLACK

Published: September 18, 2012

PRIVATE EQUITY Jason Kelly, below, a reporter at Bloomberg News, was chronicling the moves of the largest buyout shops and their billionaire founders long before the private equity industry became a political football in the presidential election.

Mr. Kelly's book, ''The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything,'' was published on Sept. 11 by John Wiley & Sons. He spoke last week about the book and the legacy of private equity. PETER LATTMAN">

UBIQUITY OF PRIVATE EQUITY Jason Kelly, below, a reporter at Bloomberg News, was chronicling the moves of the largest buyout shops and their billionaire founders long before the private equity industry became a political football in the presidential election.

Mr. Kelly's book, ''The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything,'' was published on Sept. 11 by John Wiley & Sons. He spoke last week about the book and the legacy of private equity. PETER LATTMAN

WASTE TREATMENT EXPANSION Waste Connections said on Monday that it would buy R360 Environmental Solutions, an oil field treatment services company, for about $1.3 billion in cash as it seeks to increase its toehold in the American energy boom.

Formed two years ago from the union of several smaller companies, R360 has become one of the big players in the business of cleaning up the oil and natural gas drilling fields. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

PUSHING FOR CHANGE Starboard Value, an activist hedge fund, said on Monday that it had taken a 13.3 percent stake in Office Depot, and it called on the retailer to reduce spending, focus on smaller stores and sell noncore assets.

In a letter to Office Depot's board, Starboard's chief executive, Jeffrey C. Smith, left, wrote that the hedge fund's stake made it the company's biggest shareholder. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION Complete Genomics, a DNA sequencing company in Silicon Valley, said on Monday that it had agreed to be acquired for $117.6 million by BGI-Shenzhen, a Chinese company that operates the world's largest sequencing operation.

The price of $3.15 a share represents an 18 percent premium to Complete Genomics' closing price on Friday. ANDREW POLLACK

PRIVATE EQUITY Jason Kelly, below, a reporter at Bloomberg News, was chronicling the moves of the largest buyout shops and their billionaire founders long before the private equity industry became a political football in the presidential election.

Mr. Kelly's book, ''The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything,'' was published on Sept. 11 by John Wiley & Sons. He spoke last week about the book and the legacy of private equity. PETER LATTMAN">